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Science 6 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5685, pp. 783 - 785
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102270
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Perspectives

CHEMISTRY:
The Modest Undressing of a Silicon Center

Guy Bertrand

Although they are in the same group of the periodic table, the elements carbon and silicon have very different properties. Silicon can form high-coordinate species but seldom forms low-coordinate compounds the way carbon does. In his Perspective, Bertrand discusses results reported in the same issue by Jutzi et al. in which a derivative of the low-coordinate HSi+ species has been isolated, a feat not previously thought possible. With this avenue now open, it should be possible to synthesize a wide range of other novel and interesting low-coordinate silicon complexes.

The author is at UCR-CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory (UMR 2282), Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. E-mail: gbertran{at}mail.ucr.edu

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